What will our kids learn?

As I’ve come across articles and videos of different things about our world, I’m usually initially curious.  I enjoy learning about other people’s point of view on different things.  But, some of the information I see then makes me frustrated.

For a long time now, I have avoided watching the popular new channels.  When I did in the past it seemed to always upset me.  I would hear about crimes and horrible things happening around the world and it bothered me.  This information upset me and I didn’t feel like I could do anything to change it.  In turn, I chose to remove myself from it.  Honestly, I don’t watch much television anyway.  Until recently, I also avoided computers and social media as much as I could for quite some time.  Years actually.  I would still learn about events in the world from people who I talk to.  I’ve pretty much always worked with the public which leads to small talk.  In a lot of my experiences, people talk about what they see on the news.

So try to think about how my perspective is a little different from the majority.  By removing myself from hearing about what’s happening all over the world for the first time from the mainstream media, I get to hear it first from the words of people around me.  I’d rather see how they are seeing things first.  I want to hear the perspective of my fellow humans living, working, and trying to maintain in our current environment.  Not from the large organizations.

Part of the reason I am here writing to anyone that wants to listen is because the consensus from my interactions seems to be that people are not happy.  They are frustrated, concerned, and scared about the things they are learning on the news.  Those are the same reasons I chose to remove myself from that as much as I could.  As I now am acquiring the confidence and following the need I’m feeling to become part of a positive change, I felt it necessary to come out of that isolation from what I watch, read, or listen to.  I need to have more knowledge of what people out there are reading and learning about and decide how I feel about it.  I’m getting familiar with what the rest of the world is saying other than only from my interactions.

Guess what?  I’m just as upset about all of it as I always have been.  The difference now is that I want to utilize what I have learned from all of this since I am seeing things differently now.  The kids in my life, then again, kids all over the world, are going to see and hear all of the things happening in the world.  They are going to see the news and go on the internet.  The reality of the world we live in is that anyone at any age can look up anything you could imagine and read about it on the internet.  These children with also have people in their lives that will tell them lies and some kids will believe them.  Kids are impressionable.

My passion is coming from a place to want us as the kids’ family, friends, and important people, to be the ones to teach them what we think they should know.  They are going to see it all with the internet.  Let’s be realistic.  It is difficult to shelter kids from learning about things we do not want them to know at any early age anymore.  It’s all out there for anyone to see.  I was upset about major issues around me and in the world when I was young without having the internet.  I can imagine how much more overwhelmed I would have been if I could search the web for answers and find things that were not true and written by people with ill intention.  Because that type of stuff is out there.  My thought is that I would have been even more of a basket case than I already was.

So if we can help the kids of our future learn how to deal with all of this and inform them, I feel they can learn how to deal with it better.  Open lines of communication is a very important part.  We as the people who care about the kids in our lives have the responsibility to be there for them and teach them.  We need to talk to them and learn about what they are becoming informed with and decide what we want to explain to them about it.  I am working on an idea I have on my way of helping this situation.  This idea is a way for us all to take a small amount of responsibility in the teaching and communication with the kids of the next generation.  I am developing this idea of mine and figuring out how to make it a reality.  Part of it is a book idea.   Part of it is explaining my book idea.  And as I work on this, I will continue to write.  I want you all to learn more about me and how my mind works.  I need to develop my way to contribute to a change and it is focusing on helping our kids to be alright with themselves and helping them deal with changes in our universe.

Stay tuned…how fitting….

~ auntie chelle